profitability-analysis

profitability-analysis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from msolecki/founder-os. It costs 34 tokens per session (1,805 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A client-profitability analysis that ranks engagements by effective hourly rate, including logged and unbilled time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it quarterly and before client renewals, pricing decisions, or expanding similar work.
Why use it?
It shows which clients actually make money instead of hiding weak margins behind an overall average. This helps before renewals or agreeing to repeat work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the founder-os plugin — 57 skills, 13 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/msolecki/founder-os/profitability-analysis
Any agent
npx skills add msolecki/founder-os --skill profitability-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/msolecki/founder-os

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install founder-os, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 skills, 13 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for profitability-analysis

README.md
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,805 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00034 $0.01805
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00903
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00361
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00180

Measured 6d ago against content hash 320148c40898, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

profitability-analysis scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

founder-os/skills/profitability-analysis/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Profitability Analysis

Aggregate profitability is a lie of averages, and it exists to be reassuring. This skill breaks it apart per client, and the finding is reliably unwelcome: the client the founder likes most is usually the worst-paying one. Rank by effective rate, not by how the calls feel.

When to use

Quarterly. Before every renewal. Before agreeing to more of the same kind of work — "we should do more of these" is a claim about margin, and it is almost always made from a memory of the mood rather than the timesheet.

Inputs

Read first, in order — house rule 1:

  • metrics.md — collected revenue per client, the target rate
  • clients/ — every hour logged per engagement, including the absorbed scope scope-guard counted and the unbilled hours delivery-retro recovered
  • offer.md — what this work was supposed to be priced at
  • ingestion-gate — the ranking is arithmetic and needs no gate, but its denominator is not. An hour logged as it happened is first-hand; an hour the founder reconstructs at quarter end is a recollection, and the gate's own rule is that derived claims inherit their weakest input. An effective rate computed from remembered hours is a remembered rate however many decimals it has.

Beliefs

  • Margin dies between the work, not in the work. The delivery hours land roughly where they were estimated. It is the waiting, the re-briefing, the chasing and the fourth re-reading of a thread that empty the rate — none of which appear in the deliverable, and all of which belong in the denominator.
  • An underpriced client is not a client, it is a template. The founder quotes the next similar project from what they charged this one, so a bad rate propagates to every engagement that resembles it. This quarter's margin is the small part of the cost.
  • Revenue per client is a vanity ranking, and the founder's memory uses it instead of this one. The biggest logo is usually mid-table on rate and gets defended anyway, because losing it would be visible to everyone the founder knows. Losing margin is visible to nobody — which is precisely why margin is what gets lost.
  • Efficiency is the wrong lever and it is the first one founders reach for. A client at 55% of target is not fixed by faster work: the same client served twice as fast still costs more to serve than they pay, and the founder now has less time in which to notice.

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 140 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 320148c40898

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profitability-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository msolecki/founder-os (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,805 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.